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Written by Ananda Pellerin, CNN Ananda Pellerin is editor of The Gourmand, an award-winning, biannual food and culture journal. An in-your-face, super-saturated vernacular has quickly become 26-year-old photographer Maisie Cousins’ calling card. Her zoomed-in constructed compositions of mostly flowers, food and the female body riff on the candy-coated, hyper-sexualized nature of much commercial photography but,…

A shocked squirrel has scooped the overall prize in this year’s Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards. Out of thousands of entries from around the world, Mary McGowan, from Tampa, Florida, won the overall prize with her photo titled Caught in the Act. Other entrants included an exasperated bear, a smiley shark and a rhino appearing to…